On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:14 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zzn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:54 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zzn...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> William Stein wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:59 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> You are of course welcome to believe this, but the major competition >>>>> for Mathematica >>>>> is probably not Sage, but Matlab. >>>> For many engineering applications Matlab blows Mathematica out of the >>>> water, and I wouldn't even consider Mathematica competition. For >>>> many applications in pure mathematics -- hobbyists, education, >>>> research, combinatorics, number theory, etc. -- I think that >>>> Mathematica is vastly better than Matlab. Apples and Oranges. >>> Isn't Matlab, like the open source Octave, SciLab and FreeMat >>> "knock-offs", a "purely numeric" langauge? They're great tools for easy >>> interactive computing, but do they do *symbolic* calculation? >> >> Not directly. Matlab did *purchase* MuPAD fairly recently, and they >> sell MuPAD as a "Symbolic Toolbox" addon. I used to use the Mupad >> <---> Matlab symbolic toolbox thing a decade ago for a job I had once. >> But core Matlab is very much numerically oriented. > > Interesting. MuPAD had a "free as in beer" subset that was once > distributed with the SciLab package, but nobody I know ever used MuPAD. > You're the first.
That was a typo on my part -- I meant the "Maple <--> Matlab" symbolic toolbox. -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
